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Dec 11, 2022 · There is a tradition in the Midrash that Osnat was the daughter born to Joseph’s sister, Dina, as the result of her having been raped by Shechem. From that violent incident came forth the holy soul of Osnat, who was destined to be the future wife of the righteous Joseph. 2. The Midrash states: “What did [Jacob] do?
Feb 11, 2021 · But centuries earlier, Osnat was born in Kurdistan in 1590. Her story is an astounding one — she was the daughter of a yeshiva leader from Mosul, Rabbi Shmuel b. Netanel Ha-Levi. Osnat inherited ...
Feb 2, 2021 · Kindle $11.99. Rate this book. Osnat was born five hundred years ago – at a time when almost everyone believed in miracles. But very few believed that girls should learn to read. Yet Osnat's father was a great scholar whose house was filled with books. And she convinced him to teach her. Then she in turn grew up to teach others, becoming a ...
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Feb 10, 2021 · But centuries earlier, Osnat was born in Kurdistan in 1590. Her story is an astounding one — she was the daughter of a yeshiva leader from Mosul, Rabbi Shmuel b. Netanel Ha-Levi. Osnat inherited her father’s curiosity about Judaism and convinced him to teach her to read and let her independently study the Jewish religious texts.
Jan 1, 2021 · Tr $17.99. ISBN 9781646140374. COPY ISBN. Gr 2-4–This loose biography relates the little known story of the first female rabbi, Osnat Barzani, a Kurdish Jew whose knowledge of the Torah and leadership of a yeshiva in ancient Iraq broke gender barriers. In language reminiscent of a fairy tale, a child named Osnat is born in 1590—“almost ...
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osnat and her dove the true story of the world’s first female rabbi. by Sigal Samuel. Illustrated by Vali Mintzi. Osnat was born five hundred years ago – at a time when almost everyone believed in miracles. But very few believed that girls should learn to read. Yet Osnat’s father was a great scholar whose house was filled with books.
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The Jewish Book Council recommends the book, Osnat and Her Dove, by Sigal Samuel. In sixteenth-century Mosul (in today’s Iraq), there lived a Jewish girl who longed to be a Torah scholar. Facing discouraging obstacles, but gifted and persistent, she would not surrender her dreams to a life of enclosed domestic ...
